whose only stock in trade seems to be astounding stupidity followed by rabid defensiveness that makes it all a figment of our stunned imaginations? Every George has his Sarah to take up the banner of sub-mediocrity and smug bitterness.

"I hand over the White House to Barack Obama. And to Sarah Palin, I leave the gigantic chip on my shoulder. Carry it with pride. "

It doesn't get any better than that. I'll plan to take a box of them on my road trip to D.C.and laugh about the great liberal donut conspiracy with Boston creme on my face.

Mmmmmmmmmm. Donuts.

Karl Rove would NOT give my farewell message to his deluded W. Also...not sure I could even find the words.

As much as the right would like to think they can click their red slippers and make Obama disappear...he's the legally elected, constitutionally accepted leader of a new day.

Get over it and stop making us look like a nation of jackasses now that we finally have a chance at dignity again.

I have no difficulty believing that Libby is at the very pinnacle of Cheney's associations when it comes to honorable. It's an extraordinarily low bar.

her "base" doesn't buy books, and I'm not sure about that reading part, either. Plus, without ideas or intelligence, it probably won't qualify for a good ol' fashioned book burnin'.

Oprah and not Keith Olbermann? I realize everyone can't be crammed into 25 spaces, but conservatives were calling him the devil, for God's sake.

Keith....if you're out there...you are at the top of my list, followed by Rachel Maddow and Glenn Greenwald. It's a small but select group, for which I am very thankful and appreciative.

It's hardly even interesting anymore, because Blagojevich has memorized all his talking points. Now he's not just ridiculous, he's boring. I feel sorry for illinois.

As I read this sitting here looking at VERY UNWANTED snow (love to ski in it, hate to drive in it) I am reminded of a logic class I took in college. It's pure silliness to equate today's snow in the Northeast with a blow to global warming theory. Glaciers are melting at accelerated rates. The fact that it still snows in the winter months doesn't refute the scientific facts. Good grief.

The most inconvenient truth of all is that there are so many among us who are so stupid, or so duplicitous that they can insist on global harm just to be "right". Pun intended.

A woman said to him..."If you were my husband i would put poison in your tea" (or something close to that)

Churchill: "If I were your husband, madam, I would drink it."

Joan, gather into your backpack of snappy comebacks some real Churchill-esque gems...and be prepared to launch them. These boys play nasty and you need to have some moves of your own, sad as that may be. Just suck it up and be ready to give as good as you get (always with a smile).

You go girl.

But there is a huge difference between having the "bullshit gene" and having "chops". Blagojevich's appearance was a "performance", and I'm sorry to see you taken in by its bald attempt at obfuscation.

As you said, he misrepresented the facts in order to create a defense of his deluded take on all this.

How can you give him any credit? And how can you give voters and observers of this so little credit that you think enough people will be taken in by this bag of odorous wind to give him a future in the public arena?

This wasn't a criminal proceeding. It's about ethics and malfeasance and it appears they have him dead to rights. I predict they will convict him in a criminal trial and he will go away. At which point, you will be soooo wrong.

That was before Lieberman became the ultimate turncoat. This is after. Can't start planning too soon to unseat him.

Yep times ten.

And one more...while railing against the "gummint" these people have the audacity to benefit not only from their tax-exempt scamming, but to shrilly insist on directly siphoning off OUR (as in "the others") tax dollars to fund schools and programs not designed to propagate knowledge, thought, charity and humanity, but to further the interests and power of the extraordinarily self-serving, ethnocentric and demographically limited Christian right.

And the cult of the insignificant and easily grasped. It's the new journalism. No need to dig for the underlying and more sinister aspects of anything.

are busy trying to get us out of this mess...while Republicans are busy spreading propaganda all over the airwaves. Unfortunately the Democrats should take a page from the past eight years and concede that propaganda works on a soundbite-swallowing populace that believes if you see it on TV, it has to be the truth.

There is also the fact that the Republicans face a much less risky or downright hostile field than Democrats. Try as I might, I cannot find a liberal or progressive equivalent of Fox News in terms of downright vicious deception and unfortunate household reach.

You have only to turn to Rod Bagojevich to see what kind of motives are driving aides to spend their time on TV booking activities.

1. The Washington Post is the mouthpiece of conservatives and, of course, the GOP. Who with two brain cells and a fifth grade reading level doesn't know that?

2. The veracity of the charge wasn't refuted...just the "look over there" standard diversion of citing "gotcha" media. (Thank you for perfecting the technique, Sarah Palin) As opposed to media that refuses to "getcha" if there is evidence of wrongdoing. But only if you are a Republican. Headline of alternative story WaPo should have run by GOP standards of journaistic excellence......Michael Steel...nothing to see here.

3. Michael Steele claimed on national television, incredulously, that government jobs "aren't jobs...they're work".

Stupidity or hubrus. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.